The opposition leader on Northumberland County Council has hit out at the Government over the levelling up process and said local authorities had been expected to "beg for cash".
Northumberland had one of two bids for funding accepted, with a project for Ashington town centre missing out while active travel schemes in Hexham and Bedlington will receive £14.7m.
Nationally, just 111 out of 525 bids were successful - a rate of around one in five. Northumberland Labour leader Coun Scott Dickinson felt the system was not working for ordinary people.
